The warrant

That scene pissed me off


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So the cops can't get a warrant to arrest the suspect, despite being identified by the victim, 'cos they don't have camera footage of him committing the crime or DNA evidence?

Well, they couldn't secure a warrant just on fingerprints alone, as they explained. (Odd that no fingerprints could be found on the victim herself.) Somehow dialog for that scene didn't come out right, so the police's explanation didn't make much sense. The idea that a warrant wasn't needed if the victim could identify the attacker is also odd, since in most jurisdictions, witness' testimony is exactly how the required warrant is acquired.

In the United States, a warrant is required for just about law enforcement action, but in a multitude of circumstances police can take immediate action when they directly witness a law being broken or the product of such, or with probable cause and reasonable suspicion, they can even search or seize on account of accusations lodged against somebody who is at or near the scene of an alleged crime.

Some of the nuances surrounding search and seizure can be confusing, though. I'd imagine that South Korea doesn't have provision quite as strict as the United States Constitution's Amendment IV, but every nation imposes limitations on law enforcement, if not for liberty's sake, then for practicality and efficiency, so almost no government authorizes police to just raid every house in a neighborhood to search for and seize every item that remotely resembles the one so sought.

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